#Stitch panorama gimp vs hugin for free#
#Stitch panorama gimp vs hugin how to#
#Stitch panorama gimp vs hugin manual#
#Stitch panorama gimp vs hugin software#
#Stitch panorama gimp vs hugin series#

#Stitch panorama gimp vs hugin manual#

Not perfect as I forgot the manual focus and the focus in some parts seems a bit off. I was trapped with a lens too long to take in the whole scene. This is because the process is semi-automated and some user input is required (e.g., selecting the panorama type). To get the most from the software, some prior understanding of panoramas will likely help. Adobe Lightroom CC now does panos, Photoshop, Photoshop Elements are others i have used.īelow is an example of, I think from memory, a 4x3 stitch. The underlying panorama stitching technology works fine, though Hugin is a program that may not be best suited for beginners. Not sure if it is available for later windows. One free one that seems quite good is from Microsoft called ICE. Just point the camera at the ground or something to break the sequence. Separating each one with a separating frame. PTGui allows for stitching panoramas with many rows and columns. PTGui is the best choice for professional-level photo stitching software.

#Stitch panorama gimp vs hugin for free#

It is available for free and is compatible with Windows, Mac, or Linux.

#Stitch panorama gimp vs hugin how to#

And they teach you how to use blend masks and create textures. They show the different stages of the panorama stitching process.

#Stitch panorama gimp vs hugin series#

Pre-visualize your images and number of shots required, while looking for key reference points in the scene. Hugin offers a series of online tutorials in 9 languages. Put camera on vertical to get deeper panoramas. Hand held will work but it is harder to maintain level horizons. Tripod is very useful for maintaining level Remove polarizing filter for images with clear sky. I have just a few tips picked up here and there.

#Stitch panorama gimp vs hugin software#

I suspect you will find it a lot easier to find good software for Windows or potentially an apple product as these are more predominant amongst photographers than Linux.I can't immediately recall a reference guide for making panos. Wit respect to software: I personally use either Photoshop CS4 or Microsoft ICE with none coming out as a clear leader in terms of quality, however neither will work on Linux. (and possibly not sharp enough), but if you have successfully created smaller panoramas, your lenses should be fine. Having said that though, you also want a lens with little vignetting, I tired doing that in Germany as well with a cheap old lens at 300mm and I just couldn't merge the images because of that. If you just want to shoot one every now and then, the best option is to buy a good old fashioned tripod head (like a Manfrotto 460MG) and then shoot an image say every 2 degrees, manually implementing the approach of the gigapan robot.

If you really want to regularly shoot Gigapixel images, I don't think there is a way around getting one of those machines. However I never had just water in the image but always some other background that enabled the software to stitch it (with only tiny errors). Having said that, I managed to create an image that would be 400MP cropped (500MP uncropped with 'blank spots) that included a river by just handholding in Germany. Here is an example of the SLR version of a Gigapan robot: (or maybe even two - I think a Dubai shot used two cameras on two bots) Having said that though, if you have such a structured layout, you could use Microsoft ICE just as well (as you can tell it how the images were shot). a regular one in say a 5x5 grid and then use the software that came with their robot to merge the images. Question: How do photographers usualy make rivers in gigapixel photos?Īnswer: They buy a Gigapan robot which shoots a structured panorama, i.e. If it doesn't work, maybe you could upload some pictures. Please let me know how this works out for you. Now, you should be able to manually create control points between images from the two sets. There will be two sets (ignoring 300mm for now) of connected images: The 75mm-set and the 18mm-set. Load all images, have Hugin find correspondences. This is a bit of work (auto-adjustment won't work), and then had it optimized using position and view (view is important!). I then went and manually created control points. First no Exif data and thus no v-parameter to start off with. I cropped out some details and scaled them down appropriately. Then I simulated your more extreme situation using an existing panorama and 'photographed' it at different 'focal lengths', i.e. Hugin could read the EXIF data and adjusted horizontal field of view (hfov, parameter v) accordingly. Here is what to try: Load all images, have Hugin find correspondences. They were much closer than your range, though (18mm to 55mm). First, I looked for a similar situation among my existing files, I found three from the same perspective at different focal lengths.